Table of Contents

Preface. Acknowledgements to the English Translation. Editors' Note
to the Revised Translation. Volume I: Changes in the Behaviour of
The Secular Upper Classes in the West:. Part I: On the Sociogenesis
of the Concepts of "Civilisation" and "Culture":. 1. Sociogenesis
of the Antithesis Between Kultur and Zivilization in German Usage.
1. Introduction. 2. The Development of the Antithesis Between
Kultur and Zivilization. 3. Examples of Courtly Attitudes in
Germany. 4. The Middle Class and the Court Nobility in Germany. 5.
Literary Examples of the Relationship of the German Middle-Class
Intelligentsia to the Court. 6. The Recession of the Social and the
Advance of the National Element in the Antithesis Between Kultur
and Zivilization. 2. Sociogenesis of the Concept of Civilisation in
France. 7. Introduction. 8. Sociogenesis of Physiocratism and the
French Reform Movement. Part II: Civilization as a Specific
Transformation of Human Behaviour:. 9. The History of the Concept
of Civilite. 10. On Medieval Manners. 11. The Problem of Change in
Behaviour during the Renaissance. 12. On Behaviour at Table. 13.
Changes in Attitude Towards the Natural Functions. 14. On Blowing
One's Nose. 15. On Spitting. 16. On Behaviour in the Bedroom. 17.
Changes in Attitude Towards the Relations Between Men and Women.
18. On Changes in Aggressiveness. 19. Scenes From the Life of a
Knight. Volume II: State Formation and Civilization:. Part III:
Feudalization and State Formation:. Introduction. 20. Survey of
Courtly Society. 21. A Prospective Glance at the Sociogenesis of
Absolutism. 1. Dynamics of Feudalization. 22. Introduction. 23.
Centralizing and Decentralizing Forces in the Medieval Power
Figuration. 24. The Increase in Population after the Migration. 25.
Some Observations on the Sociogenesis of the Crusades. 26. The
Internal Expansion of Society: The Formation of New Social Organs
and Instruments. Preface. Acknowledgements to the English
Translation. Editors' Note to the Revised Translation. Volume I:
Changes in the Behaviour of The Secular Upper Classes in the West:.
Part I: On the Sociogenesis of the Concepts of "Civilisation" and
"Culture":. 1. Sociogenesis of the Antithesis Between Kultur and
Zivilization in German Usage. 1. Introduction. 2. The Development
of the Antithesis Between Kultur and Zivilization. 3. Examples of
Courtly Attitudes in Germany. 4. The Middle Class and the Court
Nobility in Germany. 5. Literary Examples of the Relationship of
the German Middle-Class Intelligentsia to the Court. 6. The
Recession of the Social and the Advance of the National Element in
the Antithesis Between Kultur and Zivilization. 2. Sociogenesis of
the Concept of Civilisation in France. 7. Introduction. 8.
Sociogenesis of Physiocratism and the French Reform Movement. Part
II: Civilization as a Specific Transformation of Human Behaviour:.
9. The History of the Concept of Civilite. 10. On Medieval Manners.
11. The Problem of Change in Behaviour during the Renaissance. 12.
On Behaviour at Table. 13. Changes in Attitude Towards the Natural
Functions. 14. On Blowing One's Nose. 15. On Spitting. 16. On
Behaviour in the Bedroom. 17. Changes in Attitude Towards the
Relations Between Men and Women. 18. On Changes in Aggressiveness.
19. Scenes From the Life of a Knight. Volume II: State Formation
and Civilization:. Part III: Feudalization and State Formation:.
Introduction. 20. Survey of Courtly Society. 21. A Prospective
Glance at the Sociogenesis of Absolutism. 1. Dynamics of
Feudalization. 22. Introduction. 23. Centralizing and
Decentralizing Forces in the Medieval Power Figuration. 24. The
Increase in Population after the Migration. 25. Some Observations
on the Sociogenesis of the Crusades. 26. The Internal Expansion of
Society: The Formation of New Social Organs and Instruments. 27.
Some New Elements in the Structure of Medieval Society as Compared
with Antiquity. 28. On the Sociogenesis of Feudalism. 29. On the
Sociogenesis of Minnesang and Courtly Forms of Conduct. 2. On the
Sociogenesis of the State. 30. The First Stage of the Rising
Monarchy: Competition and Monopolization within a Territorial
Framework. 31. Excursus on Some Differences in the Paths of
Development of England, France and Germany. 32. On the Monopoly
Mechanism. 33. Early Struggles within the Framework of the Kingdom.
34. The Resurgence of Centrifugal Tendencies: The Figuration of the
Competing Princes. 35. The Last Stages of the Free Competitive
Struggle and Establishment of the Final Monopoly Position of the
Victor. 36. The Power Balance within the Unit of Rule: Its
Significance for the Central Authority - the Formation of the
"Royal Mechanism". 37. On the Sociogenesis of the Monopoly of
Taxation. Part IV: Synopsis: Towards a Theory of Civilizing
Processes:. 38. The Social Constraint Towards Self-Constraint. 39.
Spread of the Pressure for Foresight and Self-constraint. 40.
Diminishing Contrasts, Increasing Varieties. 41. The Courtization
of Warriors. 42. The Muting of Drives: Psychologization and
Rationalization. 43. Shame and Repugnance. 44. Increasing
Constraints on the Upper Class: Increasing Pressure from Below. 45.
Conclusion. Postscript (1968). Appendices. 46. Foreign Language and
Originals of the Exemplary Extracts and Verses. 47. Plates from Das
Mittelalterliche Hausbuch. Notes. Index.

About the Author

Norbert Elias (1897-1990) taught at the University of Frankfurt
until his exile from Hitler's Germany. In Britain, he worked at the
Universities of London and Leicester, and in retirement was
visiting professor in Ghana, Amsterdam, Munster, Bielefeld and many
other universities. By the time of his death he was recognized as
one of the outstanding social scientists of the twentieth century.
His previous Blackwell books include: The Norbert Elias Reader, The
Court Society, The Loneliness of the Dying, Involvement and
Detachment, Time: An Essay, The Society of Individuals and, with
Eric Dunning, Quest for Excitement.

Reviews

"Without doubt the most important piece of historical sociology
since Max Weber." Richard Sennett, London School of Economics. "A
modern classic of the first order." Lewis Coser. "Elias has all the
boldness and sureness of touch of the old masters, of whom he is
perhaps the last. Reading his pages one again and again makes the
mental note that this or that point is worthy of a Max Weber ...
One realises from a book like this that serious sociology must
remain dependent on the insightful interpretation of history of
just the kind that Elias provides." Bryan Wilson. "The most
remarkable recent attempt to contain the social and the individual
within a unified scheme of sociological analysis." Philip Abrams
"The Civilizing Process is remarkable: eclectic, insightful and
constantly surprising." Times Higher Education Supplement

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